by raising $181 million just in septemr. it's an issue fromthedebate>>governoromney' centraleconomic plan calls for a five trillion tax cut. >> i don't have a five trillion tax cut. >> that has campaigns arguing. what is the truth? romney does want to cut tax rates, that would reduce revenue by five trillion over ten years. he would offset the loss by eliminating loopholes and deductions but he has refused to say which ones. >> romney's solution he decided there wasn't math involved in this problem. that is absolutely crazy. >> as the president continues the fund-raising swing in the west, mitt romney will deliver a speech tomorrow with a stinging rebuke of obama policy especially in the middle east. >>> president obama appeared at nokia theater in los angeles and allied today his lack laws terrify debate performance last week. >> everybody is incredible professionals and they perform flawssly night after night. i can't ways say the same. >> he came on stage after perfornces by perform answers. he went to a $25,000 per plate dinner. >> he is in san francisco tomorrow. his first event

right from the start that mittmittromneysaedebateasa chance to shake up the race and came out aggressive and prepared and put the president on the defensive for much of the 90 minutes. >> president obama and mitt romney went head to head. the candidates boiled down their economic arguments. >> governor romney has a perspective that says if we cut taxes skewed towards the wealthy and roll back regulations that we will be better off. i have got a different view. >> the president has a view very similar to the view he d when ran four years guy. if you will, trickle down government would work. that is not the right answer for america. >> romney's comments about the 47% have take and toll on his campaign even before the leaked video polls showed that americans thought he favored the wealthy over the middle class. tonight he clearly wanted to try and change that perception. >> the people having a hard time right now are middle income americans. under the president's policies, middle income americans have been buried. they are beg crusd. i ll not und a circstances ise tas on middle i

that there will be no change from increased economic growth. when it came to the healthcaredebateromneymadea similar assumption. >> i can't understand how you can cut medicare 7 16 billion dollars for current cipient onedicar. >>repoer: fact check that 7 16 billion dollar projection. the president plan saves that much money by limiting payments to insurance company, drug company and hospitals. and they have all agreed to those reductions. soless tonight both men were relaying on own assumptions. the facts sometimes took a beating. >> think basically pele a judgg on the perfmance itse. on who seemed more confident. more relaxed. >>reporter: sov news political analyst bruce king says nobody is judging the debate on most factual argument. both men stretched the truth to fit their assumptions. but based on performance mitt romney was the wish. it will help him in the poll political analyst says it's hardly the bottom line. >> i think the most important thing that happened last tonight was not so much that the race will tighten but that the money is now going to continue to flow into romney cof